DENVER (AP) — A United Airlines jet returned safely to the Denver airport Tuesday after a bird was sucked into one of its engines shortly after takeoff. The engine that was struck continued to operate...

WASHINGTON (AP)   Concerned that U.S. troops are already saddled with too much heavy gear, military officials will not require them to wear improved body armor until manufacturers cut the weight...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking Web site MySpace, company and law enforcement officials said Tuesday. The number was nearly...

MOSCOW (AP) — Kyrgyzstan's president said Tuesday his country is ending U.S. use of an air base key to military operations in Afghanistan — a decision with potentially grave consequences for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama to NBC: "Did I screw up in this situation? Absolutely. And I'm willing to take my lumps." Obama to CNN: "I think I screwed up, and I take responsibility for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday imposed a $500,000 cap on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving taxpayer bailout money and promised new...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday that lessons the department learned from its disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina are being put...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia and its ex-Soviet allies wanted to cooperate with the United States on stabilizing Afghanistan but he appeared to link any help...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Armed Hamas police broke into a Gaza warehouse packed with U.N. humanitarian supplies and seized thousands of blankets and food packages, officials said Wednesday. It was a rare...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting to salvage his Cabinet nomination, Tom Daschle pleaded his case Monday evening in a closed meeting with former Senate colleagues after publicly apologizing for failing...

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — A protester hurled abuse and then a shoe at China's prime minister Monday while he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University at the end of his trip...

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday if he were still in Congress, he would have voted "no" on the federal stimulus bill. But he said he will review the final version of the...